Tonette GayCALER

Union Chapel (Garfield) Cemetery
Benton County,Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE — Tonette Gay Kelley Caler, 37, of Fayetteville died June 4, 2000. She was born Nov. 20, 1962, in Eureka Springs to James F. and Bonnie L. O'Connor Kelley. She was a 1982 graduate of Berryville High School. She attended First Baptist Church of Jenny Lind and was a receptionist at Brookside Medical Clinic in Fayetteville.

Survivors include her husband, Marvin Caler of the home, to whom she was married Aug. 26, 1983; her parents of Berryville; grandmother, Leola Southerland Billings of Eureka Springs; four brothers, David Harp of Springdale, Dale Harp of Forum, Jerry L. Kelley and James F. Kelley Jr, both of Booneville; three sisters, Phyllis Harvey of Rogers, Lola Bunch of Eureka Springs and Donna Myers of Kingston.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church in Fayetteville.

Burial will be in Union Chapel Cemetery in Garfield under the direction of Moore's Chapel of Fayetteville.

FAYETTEVILLE — Courtney Cheyene Caler, 8, of Fayetteville died June 3, 2000. She was born Nov. 9, 1991, in Fayetteville to Marvin and Tonette Kelley Caler. She attended Holcomb Elementary School in Fayetteville, where she recently finished second grade. She attended First Baptist Church of Jenny Lind.

Survivors include her father of the home; maternal grandparents, James F. and Bonnie L. O'Connor Kelley of Berryville; paternal grandfather, Willie Caler of Cass; maternal great-grandmother, Leola Billings of Eureka Springs.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church in Fayetteville.

Burial will be in Union Chapel Cemetery at Garfield under the direction of Moore's Chapel of Fayetteville.

FAYETTEVILLE — Sarah Nicole Caler, 4, of Fayetteville died June 3, 2000. She was born May 27, 1996, in Fayetteville to Marvin and Tonette Kelley Caler. She attended Mickey and Minnie Preschool in Fayetteville and was cared for by Kathy Collins of Fayetteville. She attended First Baptist Church of Jenny Lind.

Survivors include her father of the home; maternal grandparents, James F. and Bonnie L. O'Connor Kelley of Berryville; paternal grandfather, Willie Caler of Cass; maternal great-grandmother, Leola Billings of Eureka Springs.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church in Fayetteville. Burial will be in Union Chapel Cemetery at Garfield under the direction of Moore's Chapel of Fayetteville.

MOUNTAINBURG — Two young girls drowned Saturday in Lake Shepherd Springs and their mother was hospitalized after the sport-utility vehicle she was driving backed into the lake, the Crawford County sheriff said.

Courtney Cater, 8, and her sister, Sarah Caler, 4, were taken to the lake by their parents, Marvin and Tonette Caler of the Greenwood area, according to Sheriff Bob Ross.

The lake is in the northeastern corner of Crawford County just east of U.S. 71.

Tonette Caler dropped off her husband to meet his brother and two other men to go fishing, Ross said, and then apparently was preparing to leave the area sometime before noon when the accident occurred.

The sheriff said Tonette Caler either backed the SUV into the water inadvertently, or it rolled backward into the lake. The time the vehicle went into the water is not known, Ross said, but a 911 call was placed to the Crawford County sheriff's office shortly before noon. The caller told the 911 operator that a woman was being pulled out of the lake.

Ross said a man fishing along the bank heard someone crying for help and saw a woman and a small child in the water. The man was able to swim to Tonette Caler and get her to shore, but he could not maintain his grip on the child, and she slipped into the murky water, Ross said.

The fisherman, with help from a man who was kayaking nearby tried to find the child but could not, the sheriff said.

Tonette Caler was taken to Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Van Buren and later transferred to Sparks Regional Medical Center in Fort Smith, where she was reported in critical condition Saturday evening.

Ross said that, when Marvin Caler returned from fishing, he found the Crawford County Dive Team searching for his daughters.

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